To Make Progress on Climate Action, Pop ‘Normative Bubbles’
Why measuring Americans’ perceptions of others’ beliefs about climate action could be a key for climate progress.
Environment
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Policies for Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ of the Anthropocene
While important in the short term, the power of the market and technology alone will not save us in the long term. In the long term, we will have to change the way we think.
We Need to Change the Way We Talk about Climate Change
The way we talk about climate change burns and bums people out. Here’s what we should do instead.
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“Urgency and Agency”: Michael Mann on Conquering Climate Despair
The fossil fuel industry has come up with sneaky new tactics to keep us from acting on climate change. Michael Mann shows us how to identify (and overcome) their anticlimate strategies.
To Scale Behavior Change: Target Early Adopters, Then Leverage Social Proof and Social Pressure
How do you change behavior when the stakes are high and rewards uncertain? For a group fostering sustainable farming in Colombia, the key was understanding who was resistant and why, then tapping into social proof and social pressure at the right times.
How Cape Town Used Behavioral Science to Beat Its Water Crisis
Changing behavior was the only choice to address the water shortfall and drought that almost turned the taps off in Cape Town.